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If you follow this Road Map you will succeed

1 - By now you should be very familiar with a few basic chords so lets look at how you can start using these and more

If you or some one with you want to sing and basically accompany yourself and have fun on guitar, you only need a few basic chords most of the time, BUT you need to be able to play in a Key that is easy for your voice, so how do we do this?

NOTE:

If you need to find any chord there are several chord books and diagrams, use the links below to find them

A - Basic Chord Diagrams Link 1

B - Guitar Chords for Beginners - Secret to Guitar Chords Link 2

C - Guitar Chords - Secret to Guitar Chords Book 2 Link 3

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If you have finished and mastered all from page 1 then it is time to carry on

Lets look at an example

I am going to use the song ‘Knocking On Heavens Door’

If you are unfamiliar with this song look on YouTube

For this example I am using the Key of G

Chords for song are

G - D - Am - G - D - C

Basically that is all there is to it, the chords are repeated for the whole song. Now this chord progression is a I - II - IV - V chord progression in the Key of G (See bottom of page for what is a

I - II - IV - V chord progression)

If singing in the Key of G is OK for your voice, great, but if it is a little bit too low and you need to sing a bit higher what do you do?

You have basically two choices

Choice 1 - Use a Guitar *Capo (Guitar capodastro) on the guitar say on the 2nd fret, and you can still use the same chord shapes:-

G - D - Am - G - D - C (Technically you will be in another Key)

But now the song is in the Key of A not G Because you are playing two frets up the neck

Choice 2 - Learn the basic chords in all Keys, I suggest you go with choice 1 for now

*See Pictures 1 and 2 for example of types of Capos

See Pictures 3, 4, 5 for example of a Capo on the Guitar and using the G chord shape you already know but changing the Key/pitch up higher for singing

Picture 1

Picture 2

There are many different types of Capos, here are just two examples, do a Google search to find out more about Capos if you need

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Picture 3 Key of G

Picture 4 Key of G#/Ab

Picture 5 Key of A

G Chord with No Capo

Means when you strum the chord it will be the chord of G

G Chord with the Capo on the 1st fret

Means when you strum the chord it will be the chord of G#/Ab

G Chord with the Capo on the 2nd fret

Means when you strum the chord it will be the chord of A

So by using the chords G - D - Am - G - D - C

If the Key is too low just put a Capo on and you can use exactly the same chords but the pitch/Key will be a bit higher

What is a I - II - IV - V chord progression?

All this means is that each Key has 7 notes and each note can be a Chord. See picture below of the G Major Scale

The 1st note in the scale is G so this can be a G Major chord

The 2nd note is A so this can be an A minor chord

The 4th note is C so this can be a C Major chord

The 5th note is D so this can be a D Major chord

So that is our chord progression in the Key of G:

G - D - Am - G - D - C

Now these are not the only chords you could use in the Key of G There are many more. For example if you wanted to experiment and make things up for your self, see the Diagram below

In the Key of G:

Your 1st chord could be a

G Major 7 or

G Major 6 or

G Major 9 etc…

In the Key of G:

Your 3rd chord could be a

B Minor or

B minor 7 or

B7 Sus 4 etc…

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